Provide SW technology bricks and design
frameworks that can be used for designing & adopting context based
services (e.g. lbs, presence, instant messaging, local and interoperable
services in cities/urban spaces); such frameworks will in particular enable the
following capabilities:

Interconnection of public and commercial players to introduce new
city services (mobile payment, ticketing, services to elderly people, access to
city resources,…).

Creation of service design frameworks and models for commercial
viability.

Easy service development and trials through a joint technological
development for interoperability and scalability of services, software tools
and hardware.

Start building a network
of European cities aiming and validating those local and interoperable
services:

Pilot technology development and integration in several city
environments with validation of inter-city interoperability.

Identify and design new innovative pan-European e-city services.

Identify and lay out rules for seamless, privacy-aware, secure and
ubiquitous access infrastructure.

Develop a first set of European
urban services standards. This will be done in several steps:

Identify needs for standardization from existing initiatives.

Propose extensions/improvements of operational infrastructures and
shape them in standard-proposal.